Green like...
...What Professor Huxley didn't tell his wife when they witnessed the birth of the Quetzalcoatlus Hemerocallis...
Please check the image in the first comment.
Susan had been a little worried about her husband lately. David had always been a loving, kind person. True, he was a little scatterbrained (he kept saying that about her, do you believe it?), living in his ivory tower, but that's how palaeontologists and professors with a faible for dinosaur skeleton reconstructions probably are. But recently, he had become increasingly secretive, always locking his lab, ensuring neither she nor foxterrier George would enter it, let alone catch a glimpse of his current work.
But Susan wouldn't be Susan ("scatterbrained, ha!") if she let herself be easily fobbed off by David's illogical and half-baked "explanations" of why she and George weren't allowed in his lab anymore: "A ground-breaking discovery, no one can know about it, yet", "too dangerous for you and George" – as if the birth of the Quetzalcoatlus Hemerocallis hadn't been groundbreaking enough. And dangerous? Was she a whimp? Hadn't it been her who had tamed "Quetzicallie" as they lovingly called the creature that now purred like a kitten and demanded pets all the time? No! It was time to find out the true reason for his strange behaviour. Now. She grabbed her picklock, called for George, and set to work.
15 minutes and a few swearings later ("he had the cheek to change the lock! Boy, you'll have to explain a lot!"), Susan and George inspected the lab. They found themselves particularly interested in a vibrantly green, unusually shaped crystal that emanated a pulsating glow and a low, somewhat creepy humming. While they took a closer look, George sniffing at the green stone excitedly, they were startled by a loud crash behind them. It was David, standing in the lab door, his tea cup shattered on the floor, splashes of tea everywhere, staring at them. "How could you? I told you, it's dangerous!" "What? That green rock? What is that anyway? Honey, you owe me an explanation. Pronto!" "Susan, darling, I... It's m... my preciou... It's... I believe it's Kryptonite. Susan! I found a Kryptonite crystal, the most dangerous mineral in the universe!" There was a moment of deep silence before Susan burst into uncontrollable laughter, giggling as she said: "Oh darling, my crazy, adorable sweetheart! We should take a break from watching those fantasy movies. They give you weird ideas." Editor's note: Susan, David, and George had only recently watched the entire "Superman" and "Lord of the Rings" franchises.
"But Susan, it's true, this is Kryp... Hey, George, what are you up to? No, stop that! George, Noooooooo!!!!" Too late, George had grabbed the green "rock", racing off to the garden, where they heard a distant barking that, strange enough, got louder and louder the farther George ran. And off they were on yet another "catch George mission", preferably catching him before he could scarf up that strange green crystal.
Size info: The "crystal" is 4 cm/1,57 inches at its widest. I did in-camera focus stacking (with a maximum of 15 images) and combined the images in Helicon Focus (method B, R8, S4). Hints at what you see are in the tags ;)
HMM, Everyone!
Green like...
...What Professor Huxley didn't tell his wife when they witnessed the birth of the Quetzalcoatlus Hemerocallis...
Please check the image in the first comment.
Susan had been a little worried about her husband lately. David had always been a loving, kind person. True, he was a little scatterbrained (he kept saying that about her, do you believe it?), living in his ivory tower, but that's how palaeontologists and professors with a faible for dinosaur skeleton reconstructions probably are. But recently, he had become increasingly secretive, always locking his lab, ensuring neither she nor foxterrier George would enter it, let alone catch a glimpse of his current work.
But Susan wouldn't be Susan ("scatterbrained, ha!") if she let herself be easily fobbed off by David's illogical and half-baked "explanations" of why she and George weren't allowed in his lab anymore: "A ground-breaking discovery, no one can know about it, yet", "too dangerous for you and George" – as if the birth of the Quetzalcoatlus Hemerocallis hadn't been groundbreaking enough. And dangerous? Was she a whimp? Hadn't it been her who had tamed "Quetzicallie" as they lovingly called the creature that now purred like a kitten and demanded pets all the time? No! It was time to find out the true reason for his strange behaviour. Now. She grabbed her picklock, called for George, and set to work.
15 minutes and a few swearings later ("he had the cheek to change the lock! Boy, you'll have to explain a lot!"), Susan and George inspected the lab. They found themselves particularly interested in a vibrantly green, unusually shaped crystal that emanated a pulsating glow and a low, somewhat creepy humming. While they took a closer look, George sniffing at the green stone excitedly, they were startled by a loud crash behind them. It was David, standing in the lab door, his tea cup shattered on the floor, splashes of tea everywhere, staring at them. "How could you? I told you, it's dangerous!" "What? That green rock? What is that anyway? Honey, you owe me an explanation. Pronto!" "Susan, darling, I... It's m... my preciou... It's... I believe it's Kryptonite. Susan! I found a Kryptonite crystal, the most dangerous mineral in the universe!" There was a moment of deep silence before Susan burst into uncontrollable laughter, giggling as she said: "Oh darling, my crazy, adorable sweetheart! We should take a break from watching those fantasy movies. They give you weird ideas." Editor's note: Susan, David, and George had only recently watched the entire "Superman" and "Lord of the Rings" franchises.
"But Susan, it's true, this is Kryp... Hey, George, what are you up to? No, stop that! George, Noooooooo!!!!" Too late, George had grabbed the green "rock", racing off to the garden, where they heard a distant barking that, strange enough, got louder and louder the farther George ran. And off they were on yet another "catch George mission", preferably catching him before he could scarf up that strange green crystal.
Size info: The "crystal" is 4 cm/1,57 inches at its widest. I did in-camera focus stacking (with a maximum of 15 images) and combined the images in Helicon Focus (method B, R8, S4). Hints at what you see are in the tags ;)
HMM, Everyone!